Breyer was the top laugh earner this week, adding three chuckles to his score in our ongoing tally of the term’s Funniest Justice. Justice Antonin G. Scalia earned two laughs to hold onto his solid lead in the race, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. made the crowd giggle once.

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Another oral argument where both Justices evoke laughter is Illinois v. Lidster. There, Breyer jokes about being annoyed by a traffic delay on his way to work, and Scalia is the butt of some quips about getting publicity if he were to hold up a sign while looking for a killer.